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I think there was one older involving a rotary telephone.

I hate working on smokers' computers and charge extra. I usually take EVERYTHING apart and wash most parts. I used warm water, isopropyl alcohol and a brush with natural bristles.

That was awesome of you! Bravo Zulu!

What kinds of ROHS solders did they use? My current job uses SN96 and sometimes SN95 for ROHS products. We use good old SN63 for most products. I dread it when we use SN18. It is quit difficult to work with and has a bad tendency to crack during thermal shock testing.

I have bought several open box items and only had trouble with one open box motherboard. I bought it from Newegg and it was quite sad when I received it. It was missing the antennas, CPU backplate, CPU heatsink mounting brackets and the screws that held the m.2 drives, and covers in place. I...

That price for the combo is a steal. I would go for it.

I had a pair of OCZ SSD's in RAID 0 for the Core i7 920 system I built many years ago. I believe they were among the first consumer SSD's on the market. I later got a REVO X2 for the system.

Apple for many years has had good high-speed peripheral support. I would like for Thunderbolt to get more loving on the PC. My past few motherboards had Thunderbolt built-in and I had a card for my X99 system. USB on crack.

I echo the recommendations to go with the 12400 with a DDR4 motherboard instead of the 11400. You will get a lot more single thread performance for a little bit more money.

Thank you!

May want to price the 12400 with a DDR4 motherboard.

This has been very frustrating. I cannot even get a ticket to open. I even registered the product with no luck. I also cannot find a phone number to call about this product. I had zero issues getting MSI to repair a defective motherboard.

I guess our hobby's days are numbered. I was tempted to pick-up a 12700K until I saw those numbers. Full loads too.

This makes me want to vendor my GPU, take the rest of the rig to an outdoor gun range and put several hundred 10mm rounds into it. DESTROYS my rig in everything at 1/50th the size and at a fraction of the power usage. Not that I have an older machine either at about a year old.

I bought one of the affected CPU coolers for my brother-in-law and had emergency shutdown issues. I tried getting it swapped and it keeps telling that this service is not available in your region (United States). I tried opening a support ticket and only get a blank page. I am tempted to toss it...

I was kind of figuring they would not release a regular Threadripper 5000 series. What I did not expect was OEM only. That part disappoints me. I was thinking about pairing an Asus TRX80 Sage motherboard with a 5000 series Threadripper Pro. I have zero desire to buy an OEM system outside of a...

It was also back in the Pentium 3 or 4 days. I repaired a Ryzen 3600 recently using my phone as a magnifying glass so I could straighten a few pins and remove the FOD.

Seems like the person working the RMA wants to do a thorough job or just a pain. I have pulled the CPU out with the heatsink quite a few times with all sorts of AM2, AM3, AM4 and FM2 CPU's. I even had it happen when twisting. I helped someone straighten pins after the CPU fell to the floor and...

AI echo what others say. The motherboard will not bottleneck that particular GPU. Try the card out and if you do not feel satisfied, drop an AMD 5000 series CPU into your current motherboard. This way, you will not need to deal with the headaches of a fresh Windows install.

Could always go [H]ard and try out the RTX3050 in your current system to discover the results. The only way to know for sure instead of only speculating.

I had one on my Pentium II 400Mhz system. 8MB of memory. The driver support was terrible.

I bought an open box motherboard last year from Newegg. I knew the board was open box and would likely not have all of the accessories. I received a physically damaged and non-functional motherboard. The board was missing ALL accessories. It was missing motherboard screws to hold the M.2 covers...

I feel like the computer hardware hobby continues to leave me further behind. I am looking for the facts when I decide to purchase computer hardware. I want to make the best decision for myself. Not because some influencer says I "NEED" this XY or Z. I do not have a problem with FACTS presented...

I can see many using their old hardware until it becomes unusable. Many may move onto consoles or even *shudders* mobile gaming platforms. If decent gaming PC's remain high priced, we might become a niche market. I had not thought of that before of the 6500XT as a so-so choice if you have an...

I would go with a used Ryzen 3600 over the 3100 and get a PCIe 4.0 motherboard to give the system more longevity and recent features. I would also look into the 5600x or a 5800x on a good sale. Newegg has the 5800x for about $355 today. Some have even mentioned about Micro Center having them on...

AMD missed the mark on this. They could of really had something good going if they had of used an 8x interface. I could see those needing a card to finish a new system buying a 6500XT IF and only IF they were widely available at approximately $200.

I was expecting mediocre performance from this card and yet I was still unpleasantly surprised with how bad the 6500XT performed. I do not even see it as a good $150 card as the GTX 1650 Super had an MSRP of about $160 more than two years ago. You know a GPU sucks when a reviewer turns down...

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If things go like they did in the video with the 5500XT 4GB, I would not consider the 6500XT a viable upgrade for at least $200. The 6500XT seems more like a $120 GPU. From what I know, it will likely perform worse than the 5500XT in PCIe 3.0 systems. We will need to wait for the reviews to know...

Absolutely crazy times we live in when the 12GB version of the RTX 3080 goes for about twice the original MSRP of the 10GB version. I shake my head because I could of gotten a scalped RTX 3080 Strix for less than $1000 in 2019. I decided to wait because I did not want to feed the scalpers and...

That really sucks for GN or anyone else this happens to. I would love to have a Micro Center within reasonable driving distance. Unfortunately, here in Orlando it is pretty much Newegg or nothing unless BB has something you actually want on sale.

You can purchase AMD Ryzen 5000 series or Intel 11th generation series on the cheap right now. You can find them on sale quite often with a little bit of looking around. The AMD CPU's do not have any issues running nvidia Quadro cards that I am aware of. I would avoid the 8th and 9th generation...

I have always been a fan of the Asus Strix X570-E. I have built quite a few systems with it without issue. I am not sure if they are still available though.

If you want to build something that will last for about five years, go for the latest even if you may need to wait a little. I have not seen any DDR4 motherboards that have the same features as my current Z590 motherboard. I just enter Newegg Shuffles with a set of DDR5 I want with a 12700K or...

I would go with the 6700K as it has better IPC and more recent features.

The 5600G provides better performance in most cases compared to a 2700X. Drop it in there, sell the 2700X and enjoy the $46 upgrade. I venture to guess you went with the 5600G instead of the 5600X or 5800X because of the sale price of $186.

I have not seen a DDR4 Z690 motherboard I would buy. I saw some mention of an Asus Z690 Strix-E D4 on some compatibility lists for parts and have not seen it available. Did they cancel it or have not yet released it?

If that Asus Strix-E D4 motherboard would come out, I would grab a 12700K.

I am still sore from paying almost $1200 after shipping and taxes for an RTX3070Ti from the Newegg shuffle. Sad, that was about the price the RTX3080Ti was supposed to sell for and a skip away from the launch price of the RTX3090. It was still significantly cheaper than what they go for on ebay...

Neither of the Z97 motherboards I have, have PCI slots or IDE ports unfortunately.